* Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT @ 1998-09-14 23:22 Matt Armstrong 1998-09-15 13:38 ` Ed ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Matt Armstrong @ 1998-09-14 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw) I'm running rgnus-0.31 under Emacs 23.1 under WinNT. I get a MS Word document delivered to me as a MIME attachment, base64 encoded. I cursor down to the document and hit <RET> over the document. An *mm* buffer pops up with a bunch of binary garbage, I save it. It isn't a valid MS Word document. The problem here is that the *mm* buffer's coding system is undecided-dos (WinNT, remember). If I manually change the coding system in *mm* to "no-conversion," it saves fine. Is this a bug, or do I have to configure pgnus so application/msword is treated as a binary format? Also, if I mouse-2 click on the attachment, I get prompted for a filename just as if I hit <ret>. But, the Word doc gets saved in base64 -- not decoded. Is this the expected behavior? How can I make it decode before saving? -- matta ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT 1998-09-14 23:22 Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT Matt Armstrong @ 1998-09-15 13:38 ` Ed [not found] ` <199809151341.GAA26600@ns.geoworks.com> 1998-09-16 9:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Ed @ 1998-09-15 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: ding Howdy! Hey can you tell me how to get rgnus-0.31 because I can't get gnus working on my win95 machine. Thaksn! Ed ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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* Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT [not found] ` <199809151341.GAA26600@ns.geoworks.com> @ 1998-09-15 18:02 ` Matt Armstrong 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Matt Armstrong @ 1998-09-15 18:02 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: ding Ed <ejh@idcomm.com> writes: > Howdy! > > Hey can you tell me how to get rgnus-0.31 because I can't get gnus > working on my win95 machine. > > Thaksn! > > Ed Win95 != WinNT, so I'm not sure if my setup will work for you. Make sure you're running Win32 Emacs 20.3.1 (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html) Download pgnus (http://www.gnus.org/pgnus.tar.gz). Then I run a cygwin32 bash shell to get into an environment something like Unix (http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/). Untar rgnus (tar xzf rgnus.tar.gz), then build it according to the instructions (./configure; make). I don't bother installing it with "make install." Then add lines like this to your .emacs: ;; pgnus (let ((prefix "~/Emacs/pgnus-0.31")) (add-to-list 'load-path (concat prefix "/lisp")) (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list (concat prefix "/texi"))) Next time you run emacs, M-x gnus should run rgnus. Hope this helps. -- matta ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT 1998-09-14 23:22 Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT Matt Armstrong 1998-09-15 13:38 ` Ed [not found] ` <199809151341.GAA26600@ns.geoworks.com> @ 1998-09-16 9:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-09-16 9:20 UTC (permalink / raw) Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com> writes: > The problem here is that the *mm* buffer's coding system is > undecided-dos (WinNT, remember). If I manually change the coding > system in *mm* to "no-conversion," it saves fine. > > Is this a bug, or do I have to configure pgnus so application/msword > is treated as a binary format? No, all the binary things should be no-conversion. Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.32. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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